October 8-November 3: The engineers and airstaff of WCCO-AM-FM-TV go on strike.
October 22: Pittsburgh court receives a $7 million libel lawsuit from county politician Cyril Wecht over remarks the city controller made of him during a radio interview.
Undated: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, long time rocker KRST flips to country music, becoming the city's first FM country radio station. KRST is still playing country music.
Endingsedit
November 4 - KUAC Ends AM after 12 years. It's replaced by Morning Edition (see Above in Debuts)
^Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 603. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-09-27.